Monochromatic Sky with Winter Trees

There's still a bit of lingering snow so it's easy to make Christmas cards!

I pulled out a leftover snippet of shaving foam marbled background and used it as a wonderful monochromatic winter sky for my trees.  They are die cut from a snippet of white cs, as is the sentiment tag that I stamped in a dark aqua ink.  The panel with the trees is popped up on fun foam.  I went over the trees with a Quickie glue pen and added glitter to them.

Playing in three challenges with this card:

The Paper Players - Monochromatic

And 52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Winter Trees

And Pixie's Snippets Playground, where you have to use up snippets of paper, ribbon, etc. - I always have plenty of those leftover!

Supplies:

Stamps - A Muse sentiment

Ink - dark aqua ink spot (unknown brand)

Paper - white cs

Size - A2

Accessories - stitched tree frame (unknown), fun foam

Marbled Thanks

Today's card is for the Paper Players.

I had a lovely piece of marbled background in my UFO box that seemed perfect for the autumn colours in the challenge image.

I used the shaving cream technique and created a bright colourful background. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment and trimmed the panel down. I used scraps of co-ordinating colours of cs to cut three wildflower die cuts. The panel is popped up on fun foam.

A brief change from Christmas cards!!  But back to them tomorrow!

Supplies:

Stamps - Hero Arts sentiment

Ink - Oxide Walnut Stain, various reinkers

Paper - white cs, mixed media cs, scraps of red, brown, and blue cs

Size - A2

Accessories - shaving cream, Tim Holtz wildflower dies, clear embossing powder, fun foam

Thank You Wheels

The new Addicted to CAS challenge is "wheels".

I have a great stamp of an old penny-farthing bicycle that I rarely use so it seemed a great opportunity to get it out.

I made a shaving foam background, then stamped in black pigment ink and heat embossed.  I bordered in black and popped it up on fun foam.

My brother-in-law is an avid cyclist and often helps me out with things when he comes to visit so I'll save this for the next time I need a thank you card for him.

Supplies:

Stamps - unmounted, unknown stamps

Ink - Versafine Onyx Black; reinkers: Distress Antique Linen, Salty Ocean, and Vintage Photo

Paper - white and black cs

Size - A2

Accessories - clear embossing powder, shaving foam

Marbled Tea for CAS Mix Up

This is my reminder card for the September CAS Mix Up challenge "Marbling".  Our challenge is to use stamping, marbling, and your choice of at least one other element from our list of choices on the right of the CAS Mix Up page.

For my card, I chose die cutting (the teapot), Glossy Accents (on the teapot), and heat embossing (on the sentiment).

I used the shaving foam method of marbling and .  See here for a tutorial on it.  I stuck to just two colours of Distress reinkers - Faded Jeans and Seedless Preserves.  After swirling the inks on the foam, I just started playing with different scraps of cs.  First I pulled a piece of regular fairly heavy cs through it.  This got me a very dark marbled piece.  I then tried a few others.  I did not like the results on glossy or coated cs so tossed them.  But my final pull was on a piece of quite lightweight watercolour paper and I really liked it so used it for the background for this card. 

I showed the results to Loll Thompson and she suggested using the very dark first pull for die cuts and that's what gave me the idea for this card.  Thanks, Loll!

I die cut the dark piece with the PTI teapot die, and cut a second teapot so I could layer it for more substance.  I then coated it with Glossy Accents to make it look more like a china teapot.  I trimmed the background piece so that I could place the teapot on it as if there was a swirl of lovely blackcurrant tea scent coming out of the spout.  With a paintbrush, I added a bit of watered down reinker around the base of the teapot to ground it.

I added a stamped (in dark blue) and heat embossed sentiment, bordered with navy cs, and popped it up on fun foam for dimension.

Please think about getting very messy with some marbling and join us at CAS Mix Up - you have until September 24 to link up.

Supplies:

Stamps - PTI Tea for Two sentiment

Ink - Versafine Majestic Blue inkpad; Distress Faded Jeans and Seedless Preserves reinkers

Paper - PTI Vintage Cream cs, watercolour paper, navy cs

Size - A2

Accessories - shaving cream, clear embossing powder, PTI teapot die, Glossy Accents

Marbling for CAS Mix Up

Summer has flown by and it's time for another CAS Mix Up challenge.  This month it is "Marbling".

I used stamping for my sentiment, marbling for the background of my focal panel, and heat embossing and die-cutting for my choices.

I used the good old shaving cream technique to do my marbling.  If you've never done it and want to give it a try, check this tutorial on Splitcoaststampers.

I used three reinkers (two shades of blue and one of green) in the shaving cream and tried it with a few different cardstocks and watercolour paper.  This one is my favourite result - it is on a high quality, very smooth cs (the name of which I have no idea as it's just in my stash!).

I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment, cut out a stitched rectangle, added a die cut stem, and popped it up on a white cardbase.

Head on over to CAS Mix Up and check out the cards by the other Design Team members.  You'll also find some other tutorials for marbling and the list of "your choice" options.  You have until September 24 to enter a card.  Please don't forget to keep your card clean and simple.

Hoping you will join us!!

Supplies:

Stamps - unknown sentiment

Ink - Versafine Onyx Black for sentiment; 3 reinkers: SU Brocade Blue, SU Sage Shadow, Memento Summer Sky

Paper - white and black cs, heavy smooth white cs

Size - A2

Accessories - shaving cream, Memory Box die, black embossing powder, Lil Inkers stitched rectangle die, fun foam